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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Original or ancestral sin or inherited sin in no proves double predestination or limited atonement, etc.

God does not doom to hell fetuses en mass for what their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great... grandparents did. You’re describing a blood feud.


4,886 posted on 09/14/2010 9:42:39 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
Have you even read the Old Testament? I've heard RCs on this forum completely dismiss the OT. Do you?

"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me" -- Exodus 20:5

Do you read the New Testament?

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" -- Romans 5:12

If Christ had never been born, would all men go to hell?

4,889 posted on 09/14/2010 9:49:19 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: D-fendr

I have no particular interest in debating predestination with the folks on this forum that I debated at length some months ago. However, you might find some good reading at this link:

http://evangelicalarminians.org/

FWIW, I left the Baptist church I was a member of last spring when the Sunday School teacher said God forced men to sin. The pastor rejected that claim later, but I told them the bottom line was this: When you walk thru a Mall and see lost men, are they men God loves and wants to have repent, or are they men God hates and looks forward to sending to hell?

If we couldn’t agree on whether or not the mission T-shirt should say “Jesus loves you” or “Maybe Jesus loves you”, then we needed to part company. The Baptist Church I joined a few months later has a Presbyterian pastor, but he agrees that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”


4,895 posted on 09/14/2010 10:00:39 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (When the ass brays, don't reply...)
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